Sunday, March 1, 2015 Last update: 5:47 a.m.
POLL QUESTION
Testing the test: Mainers push back against standardized testing
6 mins agoBELFAST | High school student Madison Cook is not looking forward to the upcoming round of standardized tests Maine students soon will need to …
Can-Am Crown Sled Dog Races underway in Fort Kent
New Hampshire musher Peter Franke was the first Can-Am Crown Sled Dog Race finisher this weekend, crossing the finish line late …
AG Mills orders wind power opposition group to replace leaders or disband
PORTLAND | The statewide wind power opposition group Friends of Maine Mountains will have to shut down if it can’t restructure its five-member board …
Skowhegan man’s fiery death ruled suicide, police say
FAIRFIELD | A 61-year-old Skowhegan man doused himself with gasoline and set himself on …
REGION:
Bangor High School wins Maine Science Bowl
GORHAM — Future scientists went head-to-head Saturday at the 15th Annual Maine science bowl and …
Firefighters at scene of blaze on Canaan Road in Clinton
Firefighters from four towns responded at 3:43 p.m. Saturday to a fire …
NOTES FROM A CORNER OF THE COUNTRY (blog)
Income gap grows as unions decline
To judge from the news, you might think that organized labor was alive and well. …
- Body of man found in burning vehicle in Fairfield
- US border officials seize record 15 tons of pot in California
- Windham man allegedly sold cyanide to British man for $250 per gram
- What you need to know about the Can-Am Crown
- Egg-throwing incident knocks Seattle woman unconscious
Opinion
EDITORIALS
Want to cut jail spending? Stop putting so many low-risk people in jail
Although Maine’s crime rate has dropped, the number of people held in county jails has doubled in the last two decades. Maine, like other states, …
Sports
Hampden surges to second Class A boys basketball state championship in three years
AUGUSTA | A fast start and a dominant finish sparked Hampden Academy to its second Class A boys basketball state championship in three years …
Health
CATCHING HEALTH (blog)
A Hard-Learned Lesson about Shingles
It was the beginning of a Labor Day weekend when Al felt a strange sensation on his right buttock, just underneath his back pocket where …
Business
AG Mills orders wind power opposition group to replace leaders or disband
PORTLAND | The statewide wind power opposition group Friends of Maine Mountains will have to shut down if it can’t restructure its five-member board …
Living
SARAH SMILEY
More than two years later, tough decision to stay in Maine worth it
For some decisions, there is an obvious best choice, with very few repercussions. Dessert, no dessert? Dark blue paint, lighter blue paint? Heels, flats? Scrambled, …
Outdoors
VIDEO
GoPro captures musher’s perspective during sled dog run in Fort Kent
The 2015 Can-Am Crown International Sled Dog Races is happening in northern Maine this weekend. Mushers from around the United States …
Food
MAINE COURSE (blog)
Find a Piece of Maine at b.good in Boston
Slipping and sliding, my kids and I walked in the bitter cold last Thursday from our Boston hotel to b.good, a burger joint with a …
Events
CULTURE SHOCK (blog)
Lady Antebellum to return to Bangor Waterfront, with guest Hunter Hayes
Lady Antebellum, multi-platinum country trio, will play its third concert at the Darling’s Waterfront Pavilion this summer, when they return to Bangor on Thursday, June …
- CULTURE SHOCK (blog): 5 Things To Do This Weekend, Feb. 27-March 1: Goodbye, February, you miserable so-n-so
- BACKSTAGE (blog): Penobscot Theatre Company presents “End Days”: a Maine Premiere
- GEORGE'S OUTDOOR NEWS (blog): Join us March 6,7 for Bob Duschesne’s Birding Adventure with Maine Huts and Trails
